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A. G. PESSANO.

SHAFT HANGER. No. 335,839. Patented Feb. 9, 1886 WITNESSES.- 11v EZVTORm. MW Q Q W ll'nrrrn dramas Parent trier.

ANTONIO C. PESSANO, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA, ASSIGNOR TO GEORGE V.GRESSON, OF SAME PLACE.

SHAFT HANGER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 335,839, dated February9, 1886.

Application filed December 31, 1885. Serial No. 187,247.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, ANTONIO O. PESSANO,

a citizen of the United States, residing in the city and county ofPhiladelphia, State of Penn sylvania, have invented a new and usefulImprovementin Shafting or Post Hangers, which improvement is fully setforth in the following specification and accompanying drawings, in whichFigure 1 represents a side elevation of a post-hanger embodying myinvention. Fig. 2 represents a side elevation of a portion thereof. Fig.3 represents a side elevation of a detached part. Fig. 4 represents aside elevation of the fastening-bolt employed.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in the severalfigures.

It is well known that in power-transmitting machines it is oftennecessary to erect lines of shafting on posts or columns, for theconvenience of which it is essential that the hangers should be open inthe front, which in general respects is an unsafe feature, and this myin vention is designed to remedy.

Referring to the drawings, A represents a hanger, generally termed apost-hanger. At the front ofthe hanger is an opening, 13, through whichshafting may be placed within the hanger and removed therefrom, saidopening 0 being occupied by a section or filling-piece, O.

A screw or bolt, D, is passed through the walls of the opening 13 andthe filling-piece 0, thus firmly holding said piece in position andreliably closing the front of the hanger, whereby 5 strain on the sameis resisted and possible dis- (N0 model.)

placement of the sliafting at the front of the hanger is prevented. Thefillingpiece is primarily formed integral with the remainder of thehanger and capable of being detached or removed afterhanging. To thisend I locate in the mold pieces of asbestus, sheet metal coated withblack-lead, or other suitable material, at places coinciding withthejoints between the filling-piece and walls of the open ing B,whereby, during the operation of cast- 5 ing, the filling-piece will notbe joined to the main body of the hanger, although formed in its properplace simultaneously with said body.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire tosecure by Letters Patent, is-

l. A posthanger having an opening in front and a filling-piece closingthe same secured in position, substantially as described.

2. A post-hanger having a front piece cast therewith and detachedtherefrom, in com bination with a securing bolt or screw con nectingsaid piecein position, substant-iallyas described.

3. A post-hanger having an opening in front and a filling-piece closingthe same, and a securing device, the said filling-piece and theremainder of the hanger being cast at one operation, separated from eachother, substantially as described.

ANTONIO C. PESSANO.

Vitnesses:

JOHN A. Wranmasnnmx, A. 1?. GRANT.

